Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend #2

As I was reading the article about Manti Te'o I was honestly torn in which way I should swing towards. Was he telling the truth or was he lying. There have been many different sides of the story by way of tv, newspapers, and even the radio. Its really hard for me to believe that he was just making up a girlfriend just for more attention. He is already a star football player, what more attention does he need? I believe it might have started out as a small joke or something and then escalated. Maybe he did know this girl, and maybe he did meet her, but what if it was someone that Manti Te'o knew and just wanted to play a horrid prank on him, and that person never knew it was escalate like this.